I hadn't set out to write a rhyming title. It just happened. And when I asked if anybody would come with me to my first gun control rally in front of NRA headquarters on December 14th, the...
Taking Words Out of the Way to Protest the NRA
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Embracing the Light More Than Ever This Holiday Season
Reposting this piece, which I wrote just a few days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It's been three long years since that terrible day, with...
Sunlit Mindful Morning in My Dormant Garden
For many of us, December offers little time for breathing room. I know that's the case for me. This past week was particularly packed as we prepared for a neighborhood holiday gathering at...
Thanksgiving Real-Time
It's Thanksgiving morning, 5:30 a.m. The world outside my kitchen window is still swathed in darkness, no hint of sunrise yet on the horizon. The utter stillness of the house this time of...
How to Use Mindfulness Techniques to Manage Holiday Stress
I don't know about you, but the holidays are one of my biggest sources of mindfulness failure. My husband and I are both products of Jewish/Christian marriages. We enjoy celebrating...
My Book Cover Revealed (And How Mindfulness Helped Me Follow My Instincts)
I'm thrilled to be able to unveil my book cover for Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy. What do you...
What Is Mindfulness?
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, defines mindfulness as "paying attention in a particular way;...
Newsletter Experiment: Topping off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Book Progress, and My Upcoming Photography Show
Greetings from Atlanta! I'm on the road again this weekend, attending soccer parents weekend at Emory University. We've been lucky enough to attend Emory soccer games in Chicago,...
Pink October Story: The Reconstruction Consult, Box O’ Boobs, and Pig Tissue
Well, it's October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Instead of railing against the commercialism behind so much of the pink as I've done in the past, I'll do my part as a survivor to...
Never Too Old to Inspire: My 76-Year-Old Running Hero
Looking back at the past few Octobers of my life, this seems to be a month of particular inspiration for me. Two years ago I participated in my first Army Ten Miler (ATM) race at the...
Her Years Belie Her Wisdom: Kerri Lowe’s Got Gumption
Gumption. It's a word I hadn't used much in my personal discourse. It's a word I would have considered to be old fashioned, spoken only by old wrinkled men. I have no idea why. But...
Liz Gilbert’s Big Magic in Action: A Conjuring Story
I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment—not entirely human in its origins. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear I promised in last week's post that I...